'Produce 101's trainees reported to have joined the show illegally

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Mnet's controversial audition survival program 'Produce 101' is making headlines yet again, this time for illegally including on their show trainees from agencies that are not properly registered with the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism.

When a media outlet reported on 'Produce 101's failure to go by the books, reps from the show came forward with a statement on March 9, stating, "We received an inquiry from the creative content agency regarding registered companies so we immediately made an inquiry with participating enterprises about the guidelines and submitted the [necessary] registrations."

According to 'Produce 101,' the production team had suggested companies that were not yet registered to join the program. Now, all the agencies of the trainees who are currently on the show plan to complete their registration by March 15.

'Produce 101' relayed, "We aim to get every last one of the participating agencies to register, and we will continue to request [the registration] from them."

The title is wrong, the trainees did not join the show illegally but rather the agency that they are in, have not register with the Ministry. Hence the girls have not done anything wrong. And also it's Mnet's fault not to have checked the validity of the application and the agency submitting it. Anyway I understand that those affected agency are told to register by March 15, so there will not be an issue moving fro.